Three stories are told: a young southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant jew and a beautiful polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman's past--one that impels both sop...Three stories are told: a young southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant jew and a beautiful polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman's past--one that impels both sophie and nathan toward destruction.